Goggles for horses.



PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

MI Mi GOGGLES FOR HORSES. APPLICATION FILED ILR- 28, 1907- WITNESSES Alfomgys 1m NORRIS PETERS c eyes of the animal.

MELVIN M. BOGGS, OF DIXON, NEBRASKA.

OFFICE.

GOGGLES FOR HORSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Application filed March 28, 1907. Serial No. 365,090.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, MELVIN M. Boess, a I citizen of the United States, residing at i Dixon, in the county of Dixon, State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and usei ful Improvements in Goggles for Horses and i I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to devices for protecting the eyes of horses from injuryj from dust, cinders, knats, and dirt, and in this way relieving the animal of much pain and annoyance and making its service more satisfactory and valuable.

It is the object of the invention to provide goggles that will completely shut out dust, gnats, flying cinders and the like, and that may be readily attached to the headstall or bridle and ad usted to fit directly over the The nature-of the invention is fully and clearly ascertained from the device portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in view of which it will first be described with respect to its construction and mode of use, and then be pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Of the said draWings Figure 1 is a view of the head of the horse with my improvement thereon. Fig. 2 is a front View of the invention detached and spread out fiat. Fig. 3 is a sectional view in the plane 3 3, Fi 2.

imilar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings A designates a band of thin leather or other suitable flexible material of, say, for mere example, six inches wide and eighteen inches in length, suitable for extension across the front of the head of a horse and along the sides over the temples. The said band is composed of two parts that is, it is divided centrally and the inner ends 1 and 2 of the two parts are overlapped, as at 3, and adjustably joined by straps and buckles 4 along a line that will fall on the forehead substantially midway between the eyes of the horse.

Holes are formed in each part 1 and 2, at points in the band that Will come opposite the eyes, when it is in place, and pieces of isinglass 5 are cemented or otherwise secured at their edges to the fabric so as to cover said holes, forming goggles through which the animal can see, and that will effectually shut out dust, cinders and the like, that may be A at the outer ends, which straps converge at 5 7, and are connected at their convergent points on each side with what is practically a throat-latch, 8, the said straps 8 being provided with buckling means so that their ends may be connected under the animals aw. 9 9 designate straps, connected at their lower ends with the upper margins of the two parts 1 and 2, of the hand A and provided on their free ends with buckles 10 by which they are adjustably the free ends of strap 11 11 that are attached at their other ends to the brow-band of the head-stall.

The straps 4 permit of the adjustment of the two the glasses 5 may fit over the eyes of the horse to which the goggles are applied, whatever inay be the size of its head; and the adjustability of the straps 9 with respect to the straps 11 is for a similar purposethat is, to

raise or lower the goggles on the forehead. Y

It will be noticed by reference to Fig. 3 that the glasses 5 infront of the animals eyes, are bulged outward or forward from their edges to their centers. being for the purpose of keeping the said glasses from being brought against the animals eyes, as might be the case if they were made flat.

The simplicity and efficiency of the device as Well as the readiness with which it may be adjusted is obvious.

I have found isinglass to suit the purpose for which it is represented to be herein used better than fine-woven wire or common glass, inthat it completelyshuts out dust, etc., and is not liable to break and is practically transparent. Moreover, the broad head-band, composed as described, is essen' tial to the invention in order to smoke, etc. If the glasses of the head-band had no marginal extensions around the same, dust, dirt and smoke would be quite liable to get into the eyes of the animal. Again, by

providing a broad head-band extending 110 across the face on lines well above and below the eyes and constructing and equipping the connected with 75 parts 1 and 2 of the band A so that 80 This construction 90 shut out dust,

same, as described and shown, the goggles i in and outwardly-bulged isinglass coverings can be adjusted with the utmost nicety and 1 to said holes, straps at the outer edge of each be readily held in position of the adjustment. part convergently connected with the throatl/Vhat is claimed isi latch, and vertically extended and adjust- Goggles for horses comprising a broad l able straps connected with the brow-band of head-band of thin leather extending on par- 1 the head-stall and with the upper edge of the allel lines across the face between lines well head-band. above and below the eyes and overlapping In testimony whereof, I a'HiX my signature, the animals temples, composed of two parts, in presence of two witnesses. overlapped along the central portion between MELVIN M. BOGGS. the eyes, the said overlapped parts being. provided with straps and buckles to adjust the same, each part having holes made there- W itnesses ED 0 FLAHERTY, J. SULLIVAN. 

